Heroes & Villains, the Aston Villa fanzine
Heroes & Villains => Heroes Discussion => Topic started by: The Situation on January 07, 2011, 04:21:51 PM
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As much as I'm trying to enjoy life right now and try and forget about our 'crisis' the thought of ''Villa in the bottom 3" is always lurking in the back of my mind and pops up when I don't want to be reminded of it. I'm just feeling depressed about football in general, I want to try and enjoy football and dribble whilst watching Messi score another fantastic goal, but for some reason I just can't - being so worried about Villa right now is stopping me from enjoying football. It is actually despressing, serious.
Is anyone else feeling the same way?
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the Villa started making me depressed, but the Heroes and Villains Discussion forum is making me reach for the shotgun...
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Need any cartridges, Wif?
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Well i suffer from depression anyway so this mess we are in does not help when we are winning i seem to pick up but because we poor at the moment it just makes me worse but coming on here and chatting about it kind of helps as i don't have to keep it bottled up.
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Need any cartridges, Wif?
Like Emile Heskey, I'd probably miss anyway.
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Yes. Very much so.
Whilst it's not really bad (nobody has died) our general shitness is weighing on my mind.
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It's causing me to be a bit down, but depressed, don't be daft.
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Depressed, Annoyed, Angry, Upset, Frustrated....yep. Will make the highs so much better though....
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I feel a bit torn.
Whilst I've surprised myself at how non-plussed I feel about us being relegated, I'm also enraged by the appalling tactics on the pitch and lack of leadership off it.
Its like I dont mind being at the bottom per sé. But i do mind watching the car crash that is keeping us there.
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Its my second full season with season ticket. And I thoroughly love going to every home game. Results hurt, im not kidding you. Sometimes you wonder why bother, tickets are expensive, and getting there takes time and money. We are down to one income at home, as my wife is training to be a teacher now, plus we have found out we are expecting a baby this year. While absolutely delighted (it will be a boy, it will be a striker, and it will be comfortable with left or right foot shooting....no pressure), practicalities determine I probably will have to give up my ST next year for the price and time involved. And that guts me. I love going to the ground, I still get that buzz when I see VP, thinking whovever we are facing, we have a chance of getting a result. I love the ground. I love watching my team. I love cheering them on, and the ST has meant being able to see players like Milner, Heskey, Downing etc develop and improve, something you cant see from odd games or on the telly. And even better, watching Albrighton, Clark, Hogg, Herd, Lichai and Bannan come through from the youth... well, this is what football is really all about. Seeing our team in the bottom three is bloody annoying. Fuck this, we have a much better squad than some of the dirge around us. It wasnt so many weeks since we were bossing Man Utd about in our patch. SAF said it was the best team he had faced so far. One flukey goal off someones arse and a lucky result will turn the season, its all about confidence. We have the skill (generally) to drive up the league, we just need to light that touch paper. Come on lads, get it going, so we can look back on the 2010-11 season and reminisce on how we went from bottom three to glory.
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Quite down, more so at the games.
We will rise again, not sure when though.
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Others have mentioned it, I'd be careful bandying about the word 'depressed', with the medical connotations that word has. However, for those of us for whom football is an escape from the real world, the escape route must feel a little cut off at the moment as there's absolutely no enjoyability in it at the moment. Thank God for the cricket, that's what I say.
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Im pissed off when I return from games for about 5 minutes. I love Villa, I really do, but there are so many other important things in life than a football club I follow.
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Thank god for the drama queens on here. As bad as it is, the more angry they get, the more I laugh. Thanks, ladies.
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Well i suffer from depression anyway so this mess we are in does not help when we are winning i seem to pick up but because we poor at the moment it just makes me worse but coming on here and chatting about it kind of helps as i don't have to keep it bottled up.
Same. I've suffered with depression in the past and am just getting over it... probably watching the Villa makes it even worse for the both of us. I just get so tense watching the Villa, sometimes it just gets too much for me.
I never try to take sport too seriously but at the moment it feels like the sky is falling.
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No, life is about more than a game.
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Not particularly. I rolled my eyes when I heard the result on Wednesday though, I must admit.
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Sorry to be pedantic, but shouldn't that be 'are' the Villa making you depressed.
Sorry, if you are depressed then I guess that didnt help. ::)
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No not one bit situation
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its frustrates me, i go into deep thought, but depression is not one of the emotions i feel towards the club! If the worst thing happened to the villa and we were relegated then we would rise again like phoenix's and all would be wonderful again, i had my first season ticket under sir graham in division 2.
However, i have lost a mother young and a child, so football finds its perspective in my eyes fairly easily!
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This post is hidden because sheldon nose is on your Ignore List
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It does get me down for about an hour after each bad result then life goes on, I have been more pissed off this season then when we were under o'Dreary... after the last minute equaliser against Fulham I could see it was going to be a bad season. What I hate the most is that these players get to play for our club and they don't give a shit about it they are all in it for themselves. Football is killing itself and we cannot do anything about it as the fans do not have a big enough say in how the game is run. Oh well at least we won the cricket!
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Nope, it's football, it really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.
I can understand people being a bit pissed off when we lose and a tad angry when venting their spleen on an internet forum, but that should be it, if Villa are seriously making you depressed then get the fuck away from it and find a cheerier hobby!
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I feel better when I'm at the games suffering with everyone elese. If I have to check the results then I must admit I wince a bit before they're announced.
"Man City 4 Villa 0"
"Oh for f*ck's sake!!!..."
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Good God no.
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It's more the piss taking at school that gets me, because I would follow the Villa through thick and thin, like everyone else on here, but when you have everyone seemingly laughing it at you for it, that's when it hurts.
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It's more the piss taking at school that gets me, because I would follow the Villa through thick and thin, like everyone else on here, but when you have everyone seemingly laughing it at you for it, that's when it hurts.
Just feel sorry for them. They don't support Aston Villa.
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yes can't look at my kids in the eyes when they ask how we've done........suppose it is character building... GH must go!
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I think I must have been depressed by watching The Villa since about 1963. (With a brief orgasmic interlude in the early eighties.)
It's the only way to explain the car crash that is my life.
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Fed up with it to be honest. I hate to see Villa playing so badly and results going against us but not depressed. Got more in life to worry about
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Its my second full season with season ticket. And I thoroughly love going to every home game. Results hurt, im not kidding you. Sometimes you wonder why bother, tickets are expensive, and getting there takes time and money. We are down to one income at home, as my wife is training to be a teacher now, plus we have found out we are expecting a baby this year. While absolutely delighted (it will be a boy, it will be a striker, and it will be comfortable with left or right foot shooting....no pressure), practicalities determine I probably will have to give up my ST next year for the price and time involved. And that guts me. I love going to the ground, I still get that buzz when I see VP, thinking whovever we are facing, we have a chance of getting a result. I love the ground. I love watching my team. I love cheering them on, and the ST has meant being able to see players like Milner, Heskey, Downing etc develop and improve, something you cant see from odd games or on the telly. And even better, watching Albrighton, Clark, Hogg, Herd, Lichai and Bannan come through from the youth... well, this is what football is really all about. Seeing our team in the bottom three is bloody annoying. Fuck this, we have a much better squad than some of the dirge around us. It wasnt so many weeks since we were bossing Man Utd about in our patch. SAF said it was the best team he had faced so far. One flukey goal off someones arse and a lucky result will turn the season, its all about confidence. We have the skill (generally) to drive up the league, we just need to light that touch paper. Come on lads, get it going, so we can look back on the 2010-11 season and reminisce on how we went from bottom three to glory.
I've got a 9 month old and still got my season ticket. Time isn't really an issue, although I appreciate the financial side of things can be!
We just have a good moan about it on the way home from eaxh game. Throw in a few expletives and we feel much better.
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This addiction, like all others
brings it highs and its lows
But there's always people worse off in life
Aren't there Sheldon Nose?
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I'm so depressed im struggling to produce a solid poo
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How long have you followed the Villa The Situation? Over 40 years for me and believe me the bad times outweigh the good. Bad times invariably follow good with indecent haste. The problem now is that expectations were raised and it has to be said that the MON period for all its faults was almost unprecedented in my memory, certainly since the 70's, in terms of a consistent run of success in the league.
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Ps . Is it sad that I check the Internet every hour to see if houllier has been sacked. I don't know if I would feel as good as I did when that Irish twat left our club
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I'm so depressed im struggling to produce a solid poo
No such problems for me, i've just been and it was like a copper bolt.
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Depressed... probably not, but it just feels that way seeing as I'm just getting over depression and with Villa doing so bad it's bringing back some symptoms of my depression. It's not affecting my life, it's just annoying and my life isn't as good as it is when Villa suck. I'm still the same person, just have less time for football lol.
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Is it sad that I check the Internet every hour to see if houllier has been sacked.
I'm cheered by the thought that maybe he is too.
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Makes me sad and sometimes angry when Villa lose. Puts me in a bad mood for a couple days. Life moves on.
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Is it sad that I check the Internet every hour to see if houllier has been sacked.
I'm cheered by the thought that maybe he is too.
I bet woy aka big bird is
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It's more the piss taking at school that gets me, because I would follow the Villa through thick and thin, like everyone else on here, but when you have everyone seemingly laughing it at you for it, that's when it hurts.
You and me both.
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It's more the piss taking at school that gets me, because I would follow the Villa through thick and thin, like everyone else on here, but when you have everyone seemingly laughing it at you for it, that's when it hurts.
Hipkiss92 ? School ? Feck me I feel old. I got pants older than u lol
You and me both.
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They get me down when we lose, but I’m excited about tomorrow and the prospect of new players.
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Making?
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It's more the piss taking at school that gets me, because I would follow the Villa through thick and thin, like everyone else on here, but when you have everyone seemingly laughing it at you for it, that's when it hurts.
You and me both.
Snap. I've got a nose in my class too!
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There's very few of them at my place. Mainly Gloryhunters and Villa fans.
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Same here. An even split of Villa, Albion and Wolves at ours. I think we've only got 2 noses in the whole school, and I end up with one of them!
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There's clinical depression and being pissed off - two different things !
I'm 'just' pissed off here ....
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I tell you what, Albrighton, Clark and Bannan are something I'm clinging too. I can't wait to see how they'll develop and impress over the next few years. I still harbour hopes Gabby will start to look convincing. I love the little bugger and hope he hits his annual tally of 'more than 10 but less than 15' with relative ease this year, as opposed to struggling into double figures like most years.
Suppose as he has none in the league it's not gonna happen this year anyway.
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Sorry to be pedantic, but shouldn't that be 'are' the Villa making you depressed.
Sorry, if you are depressed then I guess that didnt help. ::)
Or, "Do the Villa make you depressed?"
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Villa are doin me ed in now like but !!!!!!!!!!!!!! :o
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This is one advantage of living in S Wales. People round here tend to be Cardiff, but more usually Man U or Liverpool fans...so no local rivalry pisstake going on. Yes I am depressed about the fact that we are in the bottom 3 and are bottom of the consecutive clutch of W Mids clubs. It is perfectly possible to be depressed about one particular fact without suffering medically from depression.
Regarding is/are. Grammaticians would tend to side with 'Is Villa making you depressed?' as whilst it consists of a multiple of people, Villa is and of itself a single entity.
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Yes.
4th season in a row of having a season ticket and was so close to cancelling it when MON left, but thought against it because I thought I would still enjoy myself sitting in the Holte...
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certainly depressed about who we're signing so far. looks like we've given up
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Another pedant here.
Aston Villa is a single entity, therefore, the title is correct as written.
I understand that this has fallen out of common usage but…..
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Get ready for more then...Peter Lansbury from The Times says another dressing room row story is on it's way tomorrow!!!
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I am ten thousand miles away and I am "depressed" about our position. Not suffering from depression and respect to those that are. Seen it. Lived with it. Not easy.
BTW I still think Villa is a collective noun.
Villa ARE, not IS the best the World has ever seen.
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Thanks Simba, we beg to differ, but like you I am sitting thousands of miles from our spirtual home and thought I would respond to something other than our collective depression.
BTW, regardless of right or wrong 'Villa is' sounds ugly and I would not use it in conversation :-)
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I`ve been going since 1966.
This is a walk in the park.
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I'm pretty depressed about Villa the moment, but hopefully we'll turn it round.
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I`ve been going since 1966.
This is a walk in the park.
You gotta love that quote, nice one Lochhead
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It wont allways be this bad, in someways its better than a mid table season, there will be some highs and lows and some Heroes and Villains, we could win tomorrow, we could even beat SHA, how different the wold would look.
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Nope, it's football, it really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.
I can understand people being a bit pissed off when we lose and a tad angry when venting their spleen on an internet forum, but that should be it, if Villa are seriously making you depressed then get the fuck away from it and find a cheerier hobby!
That's increasingly how I feel. Much as I love the internet and technology, a downside of all these instant opinion giving opportunities is a loss of perspective. That's life now, and not just football related.
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No it's just made me fall out of love with football even more than I already had been. The whole Russia, Qatar, Blatter debacle recently coupled with England's none display at the World Cup followed by MON walking out and now this. Football, however much I love the Villa is still only football, although it doesn't feel like it sometimes. If you are depressed now then I suggest you go and live on the moon for the next 3 weeks at least, and I'd especially try to avoid Jan 16th!!
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I is depressed too.
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A week is a long time in football
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A week is a long time in football
Especially when you've just lost!